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The sun is gradually setting in the west. At this moment, it is the time when aunts and aunts are active on Manchun Street. It's all about sesame and mung beans for oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, but it's full of the breath of life.

"Aunuch Zhang, where are you going?" At the gate of the neighborhood, in front of two old gates with mottled paint, the aunt who was burying herself in the stove seemed to have eyes on the back of her head. When she spoke, she was staring at the broken fan of the stove.

Aunt Zhang, who passed by her, stopped and raised the empty bottle in her hand. "Look, aren't you going to make soy sauce? Aunt Wu made a fire to make food. It's still too early.

After saying that, Aunt Zhang continued to walk to the street, just passing by Li Xiping and others. Aunt Zhang looked at Li Xiping and others walking, but she felt uncomfortable and looked very good. She couldn't help looking back and looking at them twice. Looking at their backs, it suddenly occurred to me that the revolutionary soldiers walked like this. They were just wearing a gown.

Li Xiping and his guards came to an extremely ordinary private house and rang the door according to a specific rule. The door is so simple that it is not even painted. It has been exposed to the sun and rain. It is old and black, and the wood under the door has begun to rot.

Li Xiping glanced around the corner of the street, and several children in crotch pants were playing with stones and playing around. He couldn't even see the arrangement of the sentry personnel. He is particularly relieved to use these professionals transferred from the army. Li Xiping was also afraid of the Sandaoqiao incident. If the news leaked again this time, Li Xiping could not make up for it. The enemy he dealt with this time was a foreigner, no longer like Xia Zhankui, a local steamed bun. It only takes a little bit of news to leak enough for him to die.

The courtyard door branch opened a gap, and Li Xiping's guard dodged in.

There is only one small room in the yard, and there are more than a dozen people in the room. The doors and windows were closed, and the temporarily installed telegraph machine didn't ring. Several officers gathered around the Eight Immortals Table, and a map of Hankou was spread out on the table. The map was filled with various symbols with colored pencils, which were mainly around the coast of Hanshui and near the Oriental Concession.

Li Xiping turned the pencil with his fingertips and looked solemnly at the layout of the map Hanshui area and said, "We mainly guard against the enemy fleet's concentrated naval and artillery fire to destroy our Hanshui Yan'an artillery company and fortress one by one, and suddenly and decisively gave up the warship to land in the Dragon King Temple, and then tore open our defense and penetrate into the Eastern Concession. Our carefully arranged mines in the Han River became useless.

Li Xiping's thinking is not unreasonable. Who says that the navy can't carry out land warfare? If the foreign navy is attacked and turns to land warfare, it is most likely to enter the Eastern Concession. In this way, the strength of the Oriental Concession has doubled, which is a challenge to Li Xiping's quick decision plan.

One of the staff officers said, "The brigade was first transferred to Xiaogan, and the remaining two regiments have just been completed. One regiment surrounds the Dongyang Concession; the second regiment is arranged along the coast of Hanshui, mainly on the Hanyang side. It's really hard to transfer people to the Dragon King Temple for defense. But haven't there been three new regiments in Hankou? The quality of the three regiments is quite good. There are former new army soldiers from all over Hubei, as well as students from other military schools. The group recruited in the countryside have also practiced some crops. Even if they don't need to train, they can still fight.

"Can you really fight?" Li Xiping couldn't believe it. He has been busy with how to deal with foreigners these days, and he left other things to his subordinates regardless.

The staff officer promised that he had been a recruitment job and taught the recruits. In fact, we don't need the new recruits of the three regiments to have outstanding combat effectiveness. As long as the troops of the three regiments are transferred to the Dragon King Temple, 7,200 revolutionary army soldiers will have an overwhelming advantage over the foreigners. Even if foreigners have the courage, they dare not land to fight.

Li Xiping nodded and agreed, and the staff officer immediately issued a temporary mobilization order in the name of Li Xiping. In fact, Li Xiping also knows in his heart that it is very unlikely that foreigners will land to fight. These new recruits several times that of foreigners are enough, not to mention that the combat effectiveness of the army composed of the original new army soldiers and the student army will not be bad.

Everything is just in case. After experiencing the bloody baptism of a battle of three bridges, Li Xiping's thinking of fighting is more and more cautious. You should know that the number of artillery in the shells and shore artillery battalion of Guishan Fortress has increased to 159, including 125 150-355 mm guns. This is almost Li Xiang's savings in the whole Hankou. There are 66 items in the inventory of the original Hanyang Arsenal, 18 items in the Guishan Fort itself, 54 items transported from Wuchang with the situation of trophies when crossing the river, and the savings of the Xinhua consortium over the years and the seizure in Zhang Biao Department. Except for the current equipment army, all the inventory is owned by Li. Xiping pulled it out. At that time, a hundred rounds were released, and in an instant, the sixteen foreign warships could be bombarded so that there was no bombardment left.

After the foreign warships entered the Hanshui Channel, Li Xiping immediately sent people to set up ten mine barriers behind them, and the narrow Hanshui Channel was filled with 175 mines. Li Xiping also hollowed out all the inventory that Li wanted to stay in Hankou. He couldn't care about how to deal with the Beiyang Marine in the future. 175 mines completely blocked the Han River, and there was also the condescending guard of the Guishan Fort. The foreigners really couldn't escape.

Li Xiping also equipped the outer artillery battalion on the bank of Hanyang at the entrance of Hanshui. Hanshui was equipped with an intermediate artillery battalion upstream, and an internal defense artillery battalion at Jingfengkou. The bottom of Guishan is under the control of Zhang Zhengtuan, and the whole south bank of Hanyang and the artillery battalions are all under his command. Zhang Zheng dealt with the foreign warships in Hanshui, and Li Xiping personally took the foreigners in the concession.

Li Xiping was still drawing dots on the map, and the phone rang again.

After answering, the staff officer hung up and reported to Li Xiping, with excitement and nervousness in his tone: "Bidcommour, the enemy warship will enter the pre-appoint in five minutes."

Sixteen warships hung colorful foreign flags and stopped in front of the wharf of the Dragon King Temple. The dockers who were idle and bored were playing with money and were at a loss by such a shocking scene for a moment. He coincidentally stopped the work at hand and stared at the sixteen rigid iron beasts that almost blocked the Han River.

The United Fleet of Britain, Germany, Russia and Japan, which is the commander of the Japanese Third Fleet in China and commanded by Ryojiro Kawashima, including 11 battleships, 1 battlecruiser and 4 light cruisers, gathered in front of the waters of the Longwang Temple Pier. The joint fleet has an obvious advantage over the coastal defense guns of the Hankou Revolutionary Army in terms of large-caliber guns, with 42 234-380 mm guns and 110 102-191 mm guns. It is not unreasonable to talk about the strength of foreign ships. The old Beiyang warships are by no means of the same grade. It is with such a strong firepower advantage that foreigners have the courage to run into Hanshui, which may be extremely dangerous. Because they never dreamed that Li Xiang had the same artillery power.

** On the open-air command platform of Maru Cambridge, Kawashima Reijiro was in good spirits and poetic. There should be a glass of wine at this moment to help today's lofty sentiment.

Compared with the vast Yangtze River, the river surface of Hanshui can only be said to be narrow. The more dangerous the landform is, the more poetically, it is magnificent. At this moment, in the eyes of Ryojiro Kawashima, Hanshui is a magnificent poem, waiting for him to write the most magnificent page.

Because even under such unfavorable geographical conditions, Ryojiro Kawashima doesn't believe that Li wants to have the ability to swallow him and bite him a few bites at most. He didn't think he was here to die. Such an arrogant act was to seduce the revolutionary army to take action. Ryojiro Kawashima was a little scared. What he was afraid of was that the revolutionary army did not dare to do anything in the face of such a favorable situation. So didn't he and Sadao Matsumura work in vain?

Rejiro Kawashima ordered the warship to protrude out of the black hole and prepare for live ammunition shooting. The target is the dense warehouses at the Dragon King Temple Pier.

The workers on the dock saw the black hole gun pointed at themselves, and no matter how slow the person was, he could see that the slimness was wrong.

"Foreigners are going to hit Hankou! Run!" Someone pulled his throat and shouted, and then ran inland.

"The foreigner is coming! Run!" The crowd at the Dragon King Temple Pier was immediately like fried ants, and the crowd was like headless flies, just stringing around like crazy.

"The sick man of East Asia!" Kawashima Rejiro couldn't help laughing up to the sky, and immediately bombarded you with a ship so that you didn't even have any scum left.

Kawashima Rejiro just had this idea, but the sound of gunfire exploded in his ear. Just behind him, the river wind came. Baga! Those Westerners are so undisciplined. He is the commander-in-chief of the United Fleet. Without his order, he dares to fire without permission, and he doesn't pay attention to him as the commander-in-chief.

There was an unnatural twist on the corners of Kawashima's mouth and turned around. He would like to see who deliberately opposes him. After a while, as long as he plays a small trick, the bastard will have to feed the bastard of Hanshui.

It's okay if Ryojiro Kawashima didn't look back. When he looked back, the scene in front of him made his heart suddenly fall from the warm and cool autumn in Hankou to the winter in Hokkaido, Japan. The north wind is mixed with snowflakes, which can freeze the urine that has just been pulled out into ice.

Kawashima Rejiro's ears are full of awe-dled whistling, not the whispering wind on the river, but the sharp whistling of countless bombs cutting through the air. The dense bombs were like a group of locusts, overwhelmingly rushing to the Kawashima Ryojiro joint fleet. It's not that Westerners deliberately don't give him face. Westerners haven't fired a shot yet. This shell was not fired by foreigners, but by foreigners.

The most magnificent page of poetry on Hanshui rushed to the arms of Ryojiro Kawashima, which will be entangled like death and will not give up.